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WEDNESDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
AIRBORNE OPERATIONS (IX Troop Carrier Command): HQ IX Troop Carrier
Command
moves from Grantham to Ascot, England.
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 679 P-38s, P-47s and P-51s
are
dispatched to support the First Allied Airborne Army in the Arnhem
and
Nijmegen areas of the Netherlands; 644 aircraft strafe and bomb
ground
targets; intense light flak claims 1 P-51 plus 1 P-38, 1 P-47 and 1
P-51
damaged beyond repair and 3 P-47s and 4 P-51s damaged; air attacks
aid ground
troops in taking valuable bridges in the area and in the advance
toward
Arnhem.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, about 40 B-26s
hit the
marshalling yard at Trier and defensive positions at Herbach to
complicate
rail transportation and aid in the Allied ground attack on Aachen;
fighters
fly air cover for the US V and VII Corps in W Germany near the Dutch
boundary
and the US XV and XX Corps in the Nancy, France area, and fly armed
reconnaissance over the Bonn, Mannheim, Hamburg, Koblenz, and Ruhr
Valley
areas. In Belgium, the 109th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 67th
Tactical
Reconnaissance Group, moves from Buc to Gosselies with F-6s; and the
153d
Liaison Squadron, IX Tactical Air Command (attached to First Army),
moves
from Stree to Verviers with L-5s. In France, the 406th Fighter
Squadron,
371st Fighter Group, moves from Beuzeville to Perthes with P-47s;
and the
512th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group, moves from St Leonard
to
Mourmelon-le-Grand with P-47s.
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